Improvement in blankets



PATENT FFIGE,

NATHANIEL WIGKLIFFE, OF WATERPROOF, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BLANKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,610, dated December19, 1876; application filed October 16, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHANIEL WlOK- LIFFE, of Waterproof, Tensas parish,Louisiana, have invented anew and Improved Blanket, of which thefollowing is a specification:

My invention consists of a couple of light blankets of wool or othersuitable material, with a lining or ply between or outside of them ofpaper, laid on a sheet of gauze or other like substance adapted tostrengthen the paper, to prevent it from tearing by the handling of theblankets, the paper and the cloth plies or layers being suitablyfastened together detachably by buttons, or otherwise, to take themapart to remove the paper for washing the cloth. The paper, being ofsuch close texture as to prevent the passage of air, makes the blanketmuch warmer for a given weight of material than can be obtained withoutit.

Figure 1 is partly a plan view and partly a horizontal section of ablanket constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 2 is a sectionof Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the lower cloth sheet or blanket; B, the upper one, and Othe paper sheet, the latter being in this case placed in the inside. Erepresents buttons by which the sheets are fastened together detachably,so that the paper sheet can be taken out when required.

The paper sheet is formed on a fabric of gauze or other loosely-wovenmaterial to give it strength to resist the tearing strains to which itwill be subject in the handling of the blanket. It will be made'bylaying the pulp on the gauze in the forming of the sheet in thepaper-machine.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A blanket or other bed-cover composed of one or morelayers of woven fabric, and a pa per sheet formed on a gauze or otherlike fabric, the said sheets or plies being buttoned or otherwisedetachably fastened together, substantially as specified.

NATHANIEL WIGKLIFFE.

'Witnesses:

WILSON WOOD, WM. S. CANNON.

